"one keeps one's friends better when one is alone. The corollary to this is that one loses one's friends, slowly, when one sees them too often or when they visit for too long a time."

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Source : Doris Grumbach (2014). “Fifty Days of Solitude: A Memoir”, p.45, Open Road Media

Doris Grumbach

#Friends Quotes #Long Quotes

“Find what makes your heart sing and create your own music.”

Source : Linda Ellis, Mac Anderson (2012). “The Dash: Making a Difference with Your Life from Beginning to End”, p.30, Thomas Nelson Inc
“I think a woman can have all of the ideas and mental pictures. She can be a real planner and a motivator. But in the end, I think a woman does best when she responds to a man.”
“As long as I see anything to be done for God, life is worth having; but O how vain and unworthy it is to live for any lower end!”
“We owe the animals our profoundest apologies. Defenseless and unable to retaliate, they have suffered immense agonies under our domination that most of us have never witnessed or acknowledged. Now knowing better, we can act better, and acting better, we can live better, and give the animals, our children, and ourselves a true reason for hope and celebration.”

Source : Will Tuttle (2007). “The World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony”, p.411, Lantern Books
“My God, that scene in Monster Inc. where the monsters realise that their entire world is founded on hurting children -look at that for a change! Two galumphing cartoon characters making a shattering realisation about their world and their role in sustaining it. A truly epic moment. It's stunning.”
“If we look at Somalia, Ethiopia and Lybia, to how they're reduced now, and to how they were before, with Italy, I think that this page of history will be rewritten and there will be a positive evaluation of the role of Italy”
“But I know I would not go out. I had taken this time to fall in love instead â€” in love with the sort of helplessness I had not felt in death â€” the helplessness of being alive, the dark bright pity of being human â€” feeling as you went, groping in corners and opening your arms to light - all of it part of navigating the unknown.”
“I fail to understand why gethes (Humans), talk about individuals versus society. They are the same thing. The action of every individual counts, and those individual acts of personal responsibility accumulate to create society. Snowflakes are equally blind to their role in causing avalanches.”

Source : Karen Traviss (2009). “Ally”, p.4, Harper Collins

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